ruminate vs weigh

ruminate

verb
  • To meditate or ponder over; to muse on. 

  • To meditate or reflect. 

  • To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen. 

adj
  • Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw. 

weigh

verb
  • To consider a subject. 

  • To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. 

  • To have a certain weight. 

  • To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up. 

  • To determine the weight of an object. 

  • Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. 

  • To have weight; to be heavy; to press down. 

  • To weigh anchor. 

  • To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. 

  • To raise an anchor free of the seabed. 

How often have the words ruminate and weigh occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )